Videos: The Rebbe and 17 Tammuz
In honor of the 17th of Tammuz, JEM has assembled a collection of clips featuring the Rebbe observing the fast and discussing the meaning of the day.
In honor of the 17th of Tammuz, JEM has assembled a collection of clips featuring the Rebbe observing the fast and discussing the meaning of the day.
In 1976, a young high schooler in Crown Heights felt the need to push back against the expectations and strictures of life as a Lubavitcher girl. The Rebbe’s sensitivity and approach to her predicament remain as topical and incisive now as ever – truly a guide to the perplexed. Today, Mrs. Mariashi Groner is the Co-director of Lubavitch of North Carolina and the Director of Charlotte Jewish Day School.
Mrs. Raizel Goldberg lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York. She was interviewed in the My Encoutner studio in Brooklyn in November of 2013.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the fast of the 17th of Tammuz and the three weeks for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Balak. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How careful must one be when giving advice?
In honor of 12-13 Tammuz, the birthday and day of liberation of the Previous Rebbe, we present an inspiring story that occurred during the lifetime of his father, the Rebbe Rashab, written by renowned author Rabbi Sholom Dovber Avtzon.
On Tuesday, June 30, 2015, the day will officially be a bit longer than usual – because an extra second, or “leap” second, will be added.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 73, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week, in a special summer edition, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: The Challenges and the Opportunities of Vacation; Contemporary Lessons from 12 Tammuz; Reward and Punishment.
The education the previous Rebbe received from a young age increased his desire to help others, and even as a child, he was prepared to pay a high price for his ideals, as the story of his first imprisonment relates.
In honor of Yud Bais/Yud Gimmel Tammuz – the birthday and day of liberation of the Frierdiker Rebbe, we share the now well-known story of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s interrogation by the GPU in 1921.
A CrownHeights.info reader sent us this photo of a bag of carrots he was about to purchase in a Shop-rite supermarket located upstate. They label states that they come from Israel, which bears serious Halachic complications as this is a Shmittah year, and all fruits and vegetables grown in the Holy Land must bear a reliable Hechsher asserting that all laws of Shmittah have been kept.
Rabbi Leibel Bistritzky was the proprietor of a kosher food store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and an early pioneer of the medical emergency volunteer response organization Hatzalah. He passed away in 2013 at age 86. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project once in 2005 and again in 2006.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Chukas. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we see the good in everything?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 72, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: New Details about the 1949 Recording; Discrimination in the Religious Community; Mid-Life Crisis.
In honor of Gimmel Tammuz, CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a set of photos from several photographers of the Rebbe’s Farbrengens in the 1980s.
Rabbi Pinchas Woolstone, served as rabbi of the Jewish House Crisis Center in Sydney, Australia, for over twenty years. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Brooklyn, New York, in December of 2013.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Korach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is a balanced spiritual life?